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More Driving Moments in Los Angeles
This week, KUSC is offering collaborations between poets and musicians—good old stuff from folks you probably didn’t know had ever collaborated. Each day on the radio, there’s an appealing sound byte. This morning, we…
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One week of inspiration #4 (by Mitch Sisskind)
Many of us are familiar with the speech by MLK the night before his assassination. But its force never diminishes. So many emotions flash across his face in such a short time. Definitely the…
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Poetic term of the day — April 28, 2008
RHOPALIC (roh-PAL-ik): Having each succeeding unit in a poetic structure longer than the preceding one. Applied to a line, it means that each successive word is a syllable longer that its predecessor. Applied to…
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Congratulations: Elizabeth Samet
Elizabeth Samet is the winner of the 2007 L. A. Times Book Award in the current interest category for A Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point. "Robert Pinsky, writing…
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Kim Novak turns 75!
Kim Novak and Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Vertigo Kim Novak officially turned 75 on February 13. In fact, however, she will always be the age she was during the filming of Vertigo…
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A Broad, Abroad (installment the first)
I am 36 years old, well past the years that one typically dedicates to wrecked and reckless abandon, wanton acts of surliness, and the lure of rock and roll. And yet Saturday afternoon had…
